And there’s the rub! Despite your best efforts to motor on down the highway of life, gas pedal to the floor, your Emotional Scar Tissue, (your Enemy), plants your other foot firmly on the brakes and says, ‘no you don’t!’

Although you’re still in the car, your fear has become the driver.

There is no human being without a few personal Injuries and Reactions…

Fortunately, there is something you can do about it

Jill’s Story: From Tragic Loss to Restoration in 10-15 Hours

Your Reactions Have a Protective Intent

As much as you hate those reactions, those reactions are your alarm system.

The fight and flight center (your amygdala) has one job and one job alone. That job is not logical or reasonable. The job is to keep your safe. So that whatever has happened to you never happens again.

To be sure that you remain safe, your fight and flight center records a visual, auditory, feeling, and smell-based memory of the injury.

Anything that looks the same, acts the same, smells the same and reminds you of the injury sets off all your alarm systems. These reactions are often referred to as PTSD symptoms, Fear, Anxiety, or Phobias.

Why Can’t I Talk this Traumatic Memory Out of My Head?

It’s not a head game. It’s a fight and flight game.

Has someone told you that you just need to tell your story to a counselor and you’ll be better? So, you went to talk it out. How come you’re not better? In fact, telling and retelling the story seems to beat you up and give you more bad memories. SSDD! (Same Sh-t, Different Day) and often more symptoms.

The reason that talking is not helping is because traumatic injuries don’t live in your head. They live in your fight and flight center. You have a full body response, not just a thinking response. So no matter how much you talk it out, your full-body response still kicks in.

A Revolutionary Answer – Build a Safe Haven

Dr. Ronald Ruden, MD/PhD from Harvard studied traumatic response for 20 years. His book When the Past Is Always Present: Emotional Traumatization, Causes, and Cures explains how traumas are recorded and their potential negative effects. He describes a revolutionary method to permanently relieve the symptoms produced by recorded trauma.

This technique gently interrupts and re-encodes the neurochemistry of the traumatic event so that the symptom pattern, memory and responses are quieted and no longer have the same meaning.

After a session, most people report having a very different understanding of the traumatic event. Dr. Ruden calls this a ‘landscape change.’

Ruden states that people don’t move past a trauma because they can’t find a SAFE HAVEN.

The technique he develops, which he calls Havening Techniques ®, has been shown to help create this safe haven.

This gentle, brain-based method creates the haven and restores a sense of peace, balance, and being fully in present time, with awareness.

Dr. Ruden’s research and years of application assure the most cutting edge answer for a problem that most of us experience at least once in our lives. There is no life without some trauma. Given that, welcome to the Safe Haven or Havening!

A Testimonial:

“I hated my life…it was always a struggle just to be alive.

I grew up as an empathic, sensitive, highly intelligent Jewish boy. My family were stoic second-generation Holocaust survivors. Holocaust remembrance was a large part of my life. I was taught not to feel.

As early as I can remember I have felt disconnected from a sense of self and my internal world and have been haunted by a sense of heaviness and impending disaster. This was confirmed and compounded by my time as a tank gunner in the Israeli army during the Yom Kippur War of 1973 where I witnessed my buddy’s death and lost many friends killed in action.

I participated in 3 hours of Havening and after a whole life of feeling frozen I am blessed now to feel a definite lightness and vitality. Other welcome changes included noticeable softening in my face, my bronchial tubes have expanded, and my ability to socially engage has definitely improved.

I recommend Havening for anyone ready to experience relief from significant trauma.”

Gadi Pollack. President, Lead Beyond Trauma Project. Houston, TX

A Safe Haven Awaits You

If you have been all the standard routes and you are still moving in a circle, Havening can open a new world for you of choice and remembering who you really are!

If you are sick and tired of having to catch up to your good life, then Havening is for you!

If you are ready to stop your Injuries (Enemies) from ruining your life, then read on.

I welcome a Call, Email, or Text from you for your free 30-minute exploratory conversation to discuss how Havening can make an important difference for you in a short time. It is common for people to have significant easing of specific reactions in several hours of work.

This Is Nothing Like Standard Counseling

How Is It Different?

The entire approach is to restart the creative, resourceful you by permanently repatterning the traumas and old self sabotage.

The focus is on your total outcome in the present; there is very little emphasis on years of history and what is wrong (your diagnosis)

Sessions focus on strategic, outcome focused pattern change. You see, hear, and experience life change during several sessions. It is common for people to report: “My life is changing quickly and painlessly; I feel free of the reactions/fears that have historically ruled my decisions.”

This process is resource-focused, not problem-focused. The pathway through the problem is to use your resources and abilities, not a focus on fixing what is wrong with you.

The aim is to empower you and hand you the tools to restart your life, so that you don’t need to rely on continual sessions in your day-to-day life.

The Duration of Sessions is Different and Expected Time For Recovery is Brief

Sessions are not 50 minutes. This process employs a few concentrated sessions to accomplish long-term change. In the first session (typically about 3 hours) I get an overview of your traumatic events and your resources. Once we determine that we are a team, we work together and create clear goals. Subsequent sessions are normally 1.5 to 2 hours. There is homework each time to boost the repatterning.

Unlike normal counseling, this does not take years. People commonly spend a total of 10 to 15 hours in sessions over several months. The outcome is expressing the creative, resourceful you by permanently repatterning old traumas and old self-sabotage.

Please Note:

My coaching/mentoring practice focuses on the treatment and balancing of reactions to fears and traumatic responses as well as the restoration of positive life experience and important spiritual direction.

I do not diagnose or treat psychological disorders (i.e. depression, anxiety disorders etc.)My experience and 33 years of experience have taught me that, when the reactions to fears /and traumatic responses are calmed, then many diagnoses simply change for the better – or disappear.

Your First Hour of Treatment Free

Do You Believe That You Deserve Joy and Peace in Your Life?

The unresolved traumas you carry effectively hijack your peace, your joy, and often your ability to relax and let the small things roll off your back.

We’re offering a Special Introductory Offer to help you restore joy and peace using brain-based, gentle, life-altering healing for your chronic fears, traumatic responses, and phobias. In this offer you will receive your FIRST HOUR OF TREATMENT FOR FREE!

Ever thorough, Stephanie designs a personally-tailored plan to optimize your results using an Intake and Trauma History form designed to identify broken connections in the mind / mental processing. This approach takes you deeper than standard talk-therapy, getting under the hood to examine the issue at its source: your mind’s mental/emotional connections.

Marked results are often seen within the initial visit, with the average person moving through life-long reactive patterns and fear responses in as little as 10-15 hours spanning the course of several months.

Meet Stephanie Shipper

Stephanie Shipper supports bright, creative spiritually-minded professionals in strategizing and finding breakthroughs with your Enemies of Potential. She is also a dedicated distance bicycler who loves to ride with the wind in her hair, a kayaker, and a former New Orleans chef.

Why Work with
My Enemies?

I challenge you to find me more than one bright, creative person who doesn't have Enemies that play with their potential, their sense of humor and their peace of mind. Everything looks great on the outside, yet they struggle with achieving what they know they are capable of.

Are you at the point where you are ready to step beyond the Enemies in your way and grow a strategy that allows you to be the amazing, fully potentiated person with a Greater Destiny and Potential you were born to be?